Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin playing billiards. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich (Kuibyshev, April 13, 1961).
This blog is about old postcards, book illustration and all kinds of paper whimsy from the Soviet Union. I'm a long time collector, and this blog is 7 years old. I have an etsy shop for cards, books, pins and vintage finds from Russia.
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Back cover of Murzilka, November 1951
Train station in Kislovodsk (1980s)
History of Cosmonautics Museum in Kaluga, Russia. Photo by M. Savin (1982).
On a metro escalator. Moscow, 1970s.
Tile layout for the Kiyevskaya metro station at the Moscow Ceramic and Tile Factory (1953).
First Steps. Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (1976).
“Winter” by Nikolai Pozdneyev (1959)
Izmailovsky Park in Moscow. Photo by Aleksandr Lyskin (1977).
Vladimir Mayakovsky. “Of Kursk, komsomol, May, flight, Chaplin, Germany, oil, the Fifth International etc.” (1924)
Cover art by R. Mazel.